Senior Customer Experience Engineer
Do you want to be at the center of the three Microsoft clouds empowering customers and partners to secure their environments to realize the full value of Microsoft Azure services? Are you looking for a deeply technical role where you can interact directly with customers, learn new technologies, drive product improvement through customer feedback, and help improve our customer’s overall security posture? Do you want to contribute to one of Microsoft's fastest growing businesses? If so, then we are looking for you!
About the role
As a Senior Customer Experience Engineer in Microsoft Security, you are responsible for your Customer’s overall health and support experience. You will partner with our customers and product managers to deploy solutions to secure their environment, closely monitor customer health, and own the response to customer support requests in a 24x7x365 environment via phone, email or web. You will collaborate with subject matter experts within your team, across engineering teams, customer service and support, account teams, and senior leadership to ensure customer issues are addressed in a timely manner. In this role you will develop deep technical expertise, have an opportunity to learn new emerging technologies, and facilitate learning and growth of your peers. As you learn, you will apply an engineering approach to defining processes, analyzing data, and working with engineering feature teams and leadership to continuously improve the customer experience.
We are looking for individuals with strong verbal and written communication skills as well as strong technical acumen across a varied set of technologies within the security space to join one of the most customer connected engineering teams at Microsoft. The role is highly technical, customer facing, and has immense opportunity to grow professionally and in scope.
An ideal candidate for this role has experience in deeply technical customer facing roles leading complex and highly visible customer engagements. Along the way, you have managed situations where the stakes are high, learned how to negotiate, developed strong verbal and written communication skills especially when sharing deeply technical information.
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- Directly engage and support top Security customers to resolve technically complex and critical technical issues in a 24x7x365 global support team.
- Go technically deep across multiple Microsoft Security technologies as you actively seek solutions to customer needs.
- Leverage knowledge and experience to mentor, model customer engagement skills, and contribute to technical growth of a global team.
- Deeply engage with Product Managers, Account Managers, and your customers directly to understand their architecture, and operations as you improve their overall support experience.
- Define and implement proactive customer health monitoring leveraging service monitoring tools.
- Adjust working hours according to business needs, including weekends, and participation in on-call rotations.
- Share support insights and recommendations with engineering, customers, and account teams to prevent repetition of similar issues. that eliminates reoccurring issues and transforms the customer experience.
- Collaborate with engineering on new feature designs and testing to ensure customer success.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years' experience in deep technical role in IT (Information Technology), Technical Support, Consulting, Program Management or similar roles
- Hands-on experience with Identity and Access Management technologies, Databases, Microsoft Defender and/or Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) or similar products
- 6+ years’ experience directly managing customer relationships in consultative or account management-oriented roles.
Preferred Qualifications
- B.S./B.A. Degree or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or Equivalent Experience.
- Multiple Certifications in Microsoft and/or competing Cloud Technologies and/or Security are desired.
- Expertise in two or more of the following cloud computing technologies:
- Cloud Security & Identity Governance – experience with Azure KeyVault, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra, Intune and/or related products.
- Access Management such MFA, Conditional Access, Device, and application management
- Authentication Protocols (Kerberos, PKI (public key infrastructure), OAuth, SSO (single sign-on), SAML, etc.)
- Development of applications using Single Sign-On (SSO), MSAL (Microsoft Authentication Library), or similar authentication libraries and technologies.
- Federation - ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services), Shibboleth, CA (Azure Active Directory Conditional Access) SiteMinder, Okta, PING etc.
- Data Platform: SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory,
- Azure Core Platform (Compute, Storage, Networking)
- Experience with automation languages (PowerShell, etc.)
- Experience with IDE and Development Languages (JAVA, .NET, Python)
- Demonstrated exceptional written and verbal communication skills with ability to adjust communication style based on the audience.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams and overcome obstacles by resolving issues regardless of team boundaries.
- Demonstrated passion for data driven decision making to help diagnose, resolve, and improve service offerings.
- Strong problem-solving skills. Ability to look beyond the problem and contribute to design improvements.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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